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CI Wanda as she would like to be forgotten — all curled up and playing a leading role under Penrhyn Stanlaivs' direction. Just too cute for any king!
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01 With Revelation Viola Dana bids a long farewell to cutie-cnte roles, and also toMetro , who wanted her to continue in program pictures. But her reward is the leading role opposite Glenn Hunter in Merton of the Movies.
f-^ you wish for a thing long enough, and hard enough, you're practically bound to get it in the end. It's a good theory, and I can prove it. I've been wishing on seven stars for seven nights that Viola Dana would drop her cutie-cutie roles and give us a glimpse of the real acting ability that she keeps hidden away in that saucy bobbed head of hers. And now she's done it.
They wanted her to keep on doing program pictures, over there at Metro's. She was so good at it, you see. "Sure-fire box," the exhibitors called her, than which there is no higher praise in the minds of the trade. If she had been a little less cute in those daring-daughter-of-the-rich country club tabloids, she would probably have been given her chance to step out into real dramatics sooner. But as one flapperette film succeeded another, Viola grew rebellious. She knew she could act, and she looked about for a story that was worthy of the passion of expression that was bubbling up in her heart.
She must have a story that required real acting, real emotion. Metro still owned the rights to A Rose of a Thousand Years, which Nazimova played so superbly as Revelation. And Viola demanded that story. Metro officials were aghast. It was really rather like Pollyanna yearning to be Lady Macbeth. Viola stood pat. She would do Revelation or nothing. The fact that her interpretation of the part would inevitably be compared to Nazimova's version, merely lent an added fillip to the game. Revelation would be at once a challenge and a vindication. And it is only fair to Viola to add that audiences in New York are crazy over Revelation, which at this writing is being shown at the Capitol theatre.
Viola was given Revelation, but it cost her a new contract with Metro. But as the new contract would have meant just another series of program pictures, Viola didn't worry. She just went over to Lasky's, and landed one of the plums of the season, the part of the hard-boiled extra girl in Merton of the Movies, playing opposite Glenn Hunter. Hardly had she removed her make-up after finishing the last scene in that picture than she was signed up for Paul a' Wanda nvith the curls Bern's picture, Open All Night,
subdued and flaying a a clever French farce. Viola
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